Quotes About Solitude

exercise his brain and keep him fed, but how to gain any traction? Books, he thought. Books, books, books. Books to get him somewhere. Books to turn him into someone. Books to grab hold of on his way up. Books as a way to be alone without feeling so alone.

The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In

We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

I've raised my voice at a human only twice in my entire life. Both times at the same human. Put differently: I've known only one human in my entire life. Put differently: I've allowed only one human to know me.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, and how can I get back?

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will

Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life.

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she has slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time.

We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist.

The inside of life became far smaller than the outside, creating a cavity, an emptiness.

It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.

Jonathan Safran Foer

She let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.

Aloneness isn't loneliness.

I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned?

Entre dos seres existe siempre una distancia singular, infranqueable, un santuario impenetrable. Unas veces adquiere forma de soledad. Otras, de amor

I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.